Student Life

Build community first and from that comes academic excellence. At the Academy we believe that what takes place ouside the classroom is just as critical as what happens within it. Our student life program strives to make every student feel challenged, supported and connected.

Student Life

Clubs & Activities

Fryeburg Academy presently offers the following established school activities. Please click on the activities below for a description.

32 member select classical choir (made up of Vocal Jazz Ensembles and an additional 8 – 12 singers from chorus.) This group competes in the spring. Performs classical literature, with a heavy emphasis on renaissance and baroque music. This is a competitive touring ensemble.

Students submit an application in the fall and are selected by committee. Training begins in early October and students are expected to be available to lead campus tours and to assist the admission and development offices with events throughout the academic year.

The Environmental Club is a group of students and staff working together to lighten our community eco-footprint. To this end we have developed and implemented pilot projects in the areas of recycling, reduced energy consumption and food waste reduction. The club members also promote a higher awareness in our community about alternative energy, alternative transportation, composting, organic gardening, ecosystems and our impact on global environmental concerns.

Members plan and produce events in the school year that provide sharing opportunities for peer education about the world and the countries represented in our community. Some fundraising activities for global service projects.

All French students are considered part of French Club and are welcome to participate in local, regional, international and fund raising events to the extent that they wish to be involved. Others are welcome, too!

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The group assists the librarians with library tasks which include: shelving books, helping other students find books, stamping & covering new books, washing the white boards in the library & light dusting, and straightening up shelves. Any student with free time during regular library hours may join. We provide on-the-job training. The members’ volunteer time is recorded and it is possible to earn various items from the FA Store.

Boarding students (with help from some of their publishing friends) have begun creating newspaper in their native languages. Korean copies have gone to Korea; a Taiwanese edition is almost complete. German and Spanish editions are in the works, and we are exploring production of an edition for students from Nepal.

The FA Trail Crew and Outing Club offers students the opportunity to attend various Appalachian Mountain Club volunteer trail crew training sessions in addition to seasonal day hikes and overnight hikes in the White Mountain National Forest. Students also participate, river conditions pending, in a local day paddle on the Saco River. Trail crew training is provided for through the AMC Trails Adoption Program. Presentations are also held throughout the year by guest speakers from the Mount Washington Valley area (SOLO, International Climbing School, Tin Mountain Conservation and many more). The above is offered on a first come first serve basis with preference given to those enrolled in Literature of the Outdoors and Ecology.

The student group designs and creates Raider Trader Cards (sports cards) which feature student-athletes who can serve as good role models for younger students in the community to whom they are distributed. Hall of Fame athletes' cards are in the design process and will be distributed through the Sports Hall of Fame when it opens in the Fall.

The Fryeburg Academy Student council is a group that focuses on student issues, student government, community service and major school events. The group oversees the class election, winter carnival, and community service week. It is also a group where student can bring concerns up for discussion and presents student issues to the administration. All class officers are expected to attend, all students are invited to attend. The student council is led by its own group of officers elected by the student council.

The group is made up of students who are regular contributors to any of the student publications. Its executive board, which is made up of all student publication editors, gathers information on issues which may have an impact on the publications and helps to resolve the situations either within that smaller group or by assisting with discussions at large. Executive Board members also nominate candidates for upcoming editorial openings and suggest students who might be recruited to work in the coming year.

Trips For Kids uses bicycles as a vehicle for lessons in confidence building, achievement, health, fitness and environmental awareness through the development of practical skills and the simple act of having fun.

Fryeburg Academy

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